triangle
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- A polygon with three sides and three angles.
- A set square.
- A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.
- A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
- A love triangle.
- The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
- A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
- A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound for corporal punishment.
- Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
- A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.
Proper noun
- A place in the United States: The area comprising the cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill in North Carolina. Used with "the" except when attributive.
- A place in the United States: A town in Broome County, New York.
- A place in the United States: A census-designated place in Prince William County, Virginia.
- A community in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, seemingly in Labrador.
- A place in England: A hamlet in Hewelsfield and Brockweir parish, Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO5401).
- A place in England: A suburb of Burntwood in Hammerwich parish, Lichfield district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SK0507).
- A place in England: A small village south-west of Sowerby Bridge, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE0422).
- A small town in Masvingo province, Zimbabwe.
- Ellipsis of Bermuda Triangle.
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